Saleh is four months old and suffers from severe acute malnutrition He weighs 25 kg and was admitted to the hospital on April 14th His 22yearold...
{"Image ImageDescription": "AL THAWRA HOSPITAL, AL HUDAYDAH, YEMEN - 04/15/2017.\n\nSaleh is four months old and suffers from severe acute malnutrition. He weighs 2.5 kg and was admitted to the hospital on April 14th. His 22-year-old mother, Nora, already has five children. She was forcibly married at the age of 11, and had her first child when she was 12.\n\nAmong displaced families in Yemen, child marriage has become an increasingly common coping strategy. A 2016 thematic assessment by UNFPA and INTERSOS on child marriage found that a trend previously in decline is now soaring.\n\nAccording to the latest UN figures, 462,000 children suffer from severe acute malnutrition in Yemen today, a nearly 200% increase since 2014.\n\n(Photo by Giles Clarke for UN OCHA / Getty Images)", "Image Copyright": "2017 Giles Clarke"}